we’ve developed proprietary benchmarks for legal reasoning maintained by attorneys at Norm. because Norm Law attorneys, while serving as outside counsel to hedge funds, PE firms, etc. deploy AI agents in their day-to-day work, we can uniquely build real legal AI benchmarking. we've been tracking frontier models across generations, and the trend is clear: models are improving substantially in their legal reasoning capabilities. the latest generation of models are nearly indistinguishable from each other in accurately answering legal questions. most models are increasingly consistent, with the most recent generation of frontier models reaching the same conclusion ~90% of the time. but for high-stakes legal work, even the best models on this benchmark reach a different answer often enough that, at scale, users receive contradictory answers to the same question every week. to integrate ai agents into high-stales legal workflows, you need both (1) purpose-built systems that can constrain, verify, and govern AI reasoning automatically, and (2) the human overlay of expertise for live workflows fully intertwined/integrated w/ ai agents in a deliberate process.

"We are about to be handed unimaginable power." -- @AlexBores I sat down with Alex Bores last week to discuss AI politics & policy. Alex is running for U.S. Congress, and is at the center of AI politics after spearheading the NY state law on frontier AI model governance. AI can provide incredible benefits to all of society. Drug discovery alone could crack diseases that have bedeviled us for generations. AlphaFold already won a Nobel Prize. And that's just the opening act. But Alex thinks we're not currently on that trajectory because we haven't invested enough in alignment. He argued for setting incentives, building structures, ensuring the benefits are broadly shared. "This might be one of the hardest things that humanity is ever going to have to do, but I don't think the hardest. I think we are capable of doing this. We're just going to have to actually work together, actually have honest conversations about what's possible, and meet the urgency of the moment."

today we launched the Legal AGI Lab. AI agents are beginning to operate in highly regulated environments like healthcare and financial services. but existing legal frameworks aren’t ready for this. And this creates a bottleneck for the agentic economy. so we are conducting interdisciplinary legal & AI research on how agents should be governed, held liable, and measured and defining the legal architecture required for autonomous agents to operate safely in high-stakes environments. Norm sits at a unique intersection: we build AI agents, we deploy them with institutional clients, and we power Norm Law, an AI-native law firm operating on live legal work. that feedback loop between building, testing, and deploying is what makes this research different.

on monday night, i spoke with Jack Schlossberg and Alex Bores, both running for U.S. Congress. AI has lower approval ratings than pretty much everything right now. i asked Jack about his advice on how to better brand AI and he had a really interesting answer drawing on historical precedent: the Space Race. Jack’s point was the genius of the american space program was to rally around a peaceful civilian mission to organize the energy and skill of the private sector to work in combination with the government to achieve. the impact of Apollo mission one went beyond technical achievement. NASA’s own description of the program frames it as a national effort with goals that extended far beyond the moon landing itself. the same type of moonshot idea could be applied to AI. people need to be able to understand what these systems are for, why they matter, and what larger project they are part of. without that, technical progress risks far outrunning public backing

John is 100% correct. What we're missing in deep professional market AI systems is the layer of assurance, supervision, orchestration, and audit -in brief, how to assure the humans who remain at the top of these workflows that the quality of execution is flawless

Norm Law, a recently launched “AI-native” firm, said on Thursday that it hired the former executive committee chair of prominent law firm Sidley Austin to serve as its first chairman and lead its investment funds and regulatory practice. reuters.com/legal/legalindus…

🚀 @johnjnay is assembling an insane team at @normativeai My LinkedIn feed is basically a nonstop stream of world-class talent joining them

It's been incredible watching how rapidly @johnjnay has built & scaled @normativeai. This week, they launched the first ever AI native white shoe law firm with a new investment of $50m from @blackstone

Asset manager Blackstone has invested $50 million in Norm Ai, a legal and compliance technology startup that also said on Thursday that it is launching an independent law firm that will offer “AI-native legal services.” reuters.com/legal/transactio…

Last week, Norm Ai hosted the inaugural Central Park AI Forum in New York, bringing together key leaders exploring the societal, legal and economic implications of frontier AI. The caliber of conversation was exactly what I envisioned when bringing together this group. Check out the highlight reel video below. Thank you @sriramk , @BasedMikeLee , @LHSummers , @chrislehane , @plaffont , @NewJerseyOAG , @tglocer , @WillKinzel , @CFTCberkovitz , @DavidZapolsky , @BenLawsky , @SusanEDudley , @arunanforct , @CFTCjohnson , @Lane_Dilg , and many others.

Legal and compliance platform Norm Ai announced that it's joined Stanford University's legal technology hub CodeX as a corporate affiliate member, allowing the startup to exchange research with the lab. law360.com/pulse/articles/23…

History shows technology can drive economic growth—but only if policy keeps up. To unlock AI’s potential while safeguarding the public, regulators must deepen their technical expertise and ensure that regulatory requirements factor in AI, @johnjnay and Troy A. Paredes of @NormativeAi argue. buff.ly/zxH7g5v

Looking forward to exploring AI, regulation & compliance with expert panelists at our July 8 event! Hear from Dan Berkowitz, @reevebull, Cary Coglianese, @SusanEDudley, @MichaelMandel, @johnjnay, Troy Paredes & more. Register today and join us next month lu.ma/ci7uti92?tk=k9EMRw

What if laws could enforce themselves? At a recent lecture, @johnjnay shared how legal experts (not coders) can turn regulations into AI “agents” that check whether businesses are following the rules. Read more: ow.ly/TneV50VXRBy

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